The 35-year-old and his four man team will take on Canada today in the pursuit of gold.

The 35-year-old curler fired his four-man team into the Sochi final with his second last-shot victory in as many days, beating world champs Sweden 6-5 on Wednesday.

Murdoch and his colleagues will be on a high after watching the British women clinch a bronze yesterday with a narrow but comfortable win over Switzerland by the same margin.

The
male skip, whose mum Marion works at Lockerbie Ice Rink, wants nothing but victory against Canada – and he believes the momentum is with them. He said: “I want the gold. You get this opportunity once in a lifetime and it’s up to us to seize the day and make some incredible history.

“I hope it’s our time. The curling gods
have been looking down on me this week and it makes a change. We have to go out there with confidence and no fear, go for it and believe it. If we play well, we’ve got every chance.”

The final result, be it gold or silver, will be Britain’s fourth medal of the games – one better than in Germany in 1936.

Murdoch has suffered the pain of Olympic defeat twice.

He
added: “Having the experience of the near-misses in Turin and Vancouver has helped me keep my head and settle my play this week.

“This team believes in itself. I can’t believe the confidence we have and now we’re in the Olympic final.”

Opponents Canada have won the last two Olympic golds with Great Britain’s men not having clinched the top gong since 1924.

That’s an incredible 90 years – 13 years longer than the country’s wait for a men’s singles Wimbledon champion before fellow Scot Andy Murray won last year.